Opening Dreams

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field. This game. It's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and it could be again. Ooohhh...people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come."
--Terence Mann (Field of Dreams)

It's a special day in Cincinnati and elsewhere. It's Opening Day. Today, hope springs eternal. Anything is possible.

For players and their teams, there is optimism that this will be their year. Regardless of what happened in the past, today is the first day of a bright future. This is the year when they'll put it all together.

For the rest of us, today we toss winter onto the scrap heap of history. It's time to get outside, to shed our winter skin. To remind ourselves of all that is good. We feel renewed like the blooms unfolding around us.

Opening Day marks that time once again.